美味しいミカンだけど別の楽しみも"The pleasure it's a good orange, but which is different,"

このミカン「日向夏」というミカンなのですが

夏とありますが、12月から高級ミカンとして出回ります

This orange "Hyuganatsu(sunny place summer)".

I have that with summer, but I appear as a luxury orange from December. 

薄皮を向いて、白い部分が美味しいミカンで、ホテルの高級デザートなどで出されることが多いんです

White part turns to a pellicle, and is often taken out for a luxury dessert from hotel for a good orange.

メロンと合わせてこんな感じ

According to the melon, such feeling.

実はこのミカンとても香りが良くて別の使い道があります

Well, this orange is very fragrant, and difference is usable.

丁寧に薄皮を剥いて、準備します

Pellicle is peeled and prepared politely.

僕は皮をナイフで剥くときに指を怪我したりします・・・・注意してね

When peeling skin with a knife, I hurt my finger...., please be careful.

熱いお風呂にいれるととてもいい香りがします。

I say that it's put in a hot bathroom very much and smell.

そして香りのいい皮脂で躰をこすって風呂から上がると、とても素敵な柑橘系の香りが体について気分が向上します

The fragrance of the citrus system which is very nice when I rub body by fragrant sebum and get out of the bath, feeling improves about a body.

クリスマス・イブ "Christmas Eve"

 あっという間に今年も終わりが近づいて、今日はクリスマスイブ

The end also approaches this year suddenly, and, today is Christmas Eve.

クリスマスプレゼントは用意しましたか?

Was a Christmas present prepared?

ホントは友達も一緒にクリスマスパーティでもしたいのですが、今年は無理ですね

Even a Christmas party would like to combine a friend actually, too, it's impossible this year, isn't it?

今年は娘も帰ってこないので、絵を描いて気分だけでも盛り上げたい

My daughter isn't returning this year, either, so I'd like to draw a picture and liven up my feeling.

いつもはねビデオレターみたいなのも作ってYou Tubeの僕のチャンネルにあげるんだけど

It's also made and given to my channel of You Tube that usual looks like a video letter.

まだできていない

It isn't done yet.

だから以前に作った画像でご挨拶

So I greet with the picture made before.

COVID-19が早く収束して、素敵な来年をプレゼントしてくださいサンタさん

COVID-19 be early and convergent, and Mr. Santa Claus present nice next year, please!!.

とにかく、これからの年末・年始は感染対策をして病気にかからないようにしましょう

Anyway future end of the year and beginning of the year will make sure that I'll take an infection measure and fall ill.

表情 "Expression"

今年は家に居る時間と、眠れない夜が多かったので 

Because there were a lot of time when I'm in a house and night when I can't sleep this year.

絵をたくさん描きました

Many pictures were drawn.

今日は女性の表情がテーマです

 Female expression is a theme today.

女性の眼差しを描くことは多いのですが、目をつぶったり、物思いにふける姿は不得意でした、温かくやさしい母娘の表情はいかがでしょうか?

Female looks are often drawn, I overlook, and how about a weak expression of my warm and easy mother daughter for the form that I'm pensive?

まったく眼差しが見えない姿はどう感じてもらえますか ?

How could you feel the form that a look isn't seen at all?

最後の絵は、声を出しながら女性が泣いている姿なんです

The last picture is the form that a lady is crying while raising a cry.

皆さんはどう感じてもらえましたか?

How could you feel everyone?

 

来年は笑顔がたくさん題材になるようにしたいです

I'd like to make sure that many smiling faces will be a subject next year.

悪疫退散 "Plague dispersal"

私の住んでいる地域では夜神楽があることを１１月にも紹介しましたが、この踊りで踊っているのは鬼ではありません

 It was also introduced in November that there is Shinto music and dancing played at night in the area where I live, but it isn't a Demon that dancing by this dance.

神様です

They are Gods!!.

主に五穀豊穣や悪霊退散、家内安全などを祈願してくれます

They pray productiveness of grains, an evil spirit dispersal and wife safety mainly.

中にはこんなに可愛い踊り手もいます

There is a cute dancer, too.

今年から来年前半にかけては、主に悪疫(COVID-19)に退散願いましょう

Would a plague (COVID-19) disperse mainly to the first half next year from this year?

「鬼滅の刃」も悪疫(COVID-19)を切りまくってもらいましょう

"Blade of Kimetsu(The demon limit)" will also have them cut and cut a plague (COVID-19).

現在、認定が進んでいる各製薬会社や研究所のワクチンの効果が絶大でありますように。

As the effect of the vaccine of each pharmaceutical company and the research center authorization is advancing at present is enormous.

この刃はワクチンかもしれませんね。

This blade may be a vaccine.

 

お正月まであとわずか"The back is little until New Year's"

 クリスマスを直前にして、お正月のことを書くのは少し早いかもしれないけど

To do Christmas just before and write New Year's may be early.

年賀状は書きましたか?? (クリスマスカードは当然とっくに発送してますよね)

Was a New Year's card written? (A Christmas card is shipped off already of course.)

年賀状はまだ出来上がっていません

New Year's cards has not been finished yet.

文面を考えたりも大変です

Contents of a letter are considered, and it's serious.

これは過去に出した年賀状のあいさつ文や自分で描いた絵がらです

This is a greeting sentence and one of the New Year's card sent in the past, and a drawn picture.

絵の和服姿で挨拶しているのは娘がモデルでした

My daughter was a model for greeting by the form of Japanese clothes of the picture.

急いで、お正月に間に合わせるようにしましょう

I'll have done at New Year's quickly.

ところで、クリスマスの準備はいかがでしょうか?

By the way how about preparations at Christmas?

都会で暮らすか、田舎暗しか? "Whether you live at a city, only the country an? "

僕はつい少し前までは田舎にコテージでも立てて暮らしたいと思っていた

I thought I could leave the cottage for the country until several years ago, and would like to live.

森の中で、山菜を採り、焼物や彫刻をして暮らす 

I adopt wild vegetable, do pottery and a sculpture and live in the forest.

仙人のような暮らしがしてみたいと思った。

I thought I'd like to do living like an immortal.

でも、近頃はね、都会に適度に近くて自然がたくさんあればそれでいいと考えるようになった

But it's these days, I came to think that's OK when it's near a city moderately, and there is much nature.

何でもすぐに手に入る便利さを享受すると、それがなかなかできない田舎暮らしは辛いかな

と考えるようになった、歳をとったせい??

When the convenience which will get everything immediately is enjoyed, is that hard on the country living which won't be done easily?

The cause for which the year I came to consider was taken?

僕のなまけ癖のせいかな??

Cause of my habit of laziness?

写真はカナダ、バンク―バー近郊でした

Pictures were Canada and a Vancouver suburb.

セクシーポーズを描いてみました "Sexy pose was drawn."

休日や眠れないときは描いています

Holiday and the time when I can't sleep are being drawn.

やっぱり女性の姿がいいですね 

It has the good figure of a lady as expected, doesn't it?

雑誌に掲載されている写真をモデルに

Modeled after the picture which appears on a magazine.

ペンタブレットを使って遊んでいます

I'm playing using a pen tablet.

上手だと言ってくれる人が多いのですが

There are a lot of people who say that they're good.

それはね、モデルにしている写真がいいんですよ

It's that, the picture made a model, that's all right.

出会っちゃった!! "Two birds came!!"

ウサギが1匹(1羽と呼ばれることもある) 

1 of rabbit (is called 1 bird).

こともある目の周りと長い耳が黒い

Around the eye a fact is also and a long ear are black.

2匹目のウサギ、身体全体が白いですね

The 2nd of rabbit and the whole body are white,

いつの間にか2匹は近づいて仲良くしています

2 are approaching, are being on good terms and are doing all too soon.

恋人達なのでしょうか?

Sweethearts?

日本ではウサギを鳥のように1羽２羽と数えるときがあります。

There is time when rabbit is ranked as 1 bird and 2 birds like a bird in Japan.

何故かって、昔、獣を食べることができなかった僧侶が二本足で立つウサギを鳥類としてこじつけて食べたという説と、長い耳が羽に似ているからという説があるんですよ。

For some reason, the priests who couldn't eat an animal before are the opinion which strained and ate the rabbit two rise by a foot as the bird and the one with the opinion by which a long ear says to a feather because it's similar.

自分を誉めてあげよう"I'd like to praise myself."

 12月3日、 On December 3.

このブログをスタートしたのが、2009年12月5日

実に11年も投稿し続けているんです、すでにこの記事で2904回目 

こんなに長く続けられたことに、先ずは自分を誉めたいと思います

It's December 5, 2009 that this blog has been started.

Very, I also keep contributing for 11 years, it's this article already, the 2904th time

I'd like to praise myself almost in its being continued so lengthily.

色んな国にも行きました

I also went to various countries.

写真も10万枚以上撮って、このブログにはほんの一部ですが1万枚近く載せているはずです

More than 100,000 pictures are also taken, and it's just one in this blog, but nearly 10,000 should be put.

続けてこれたのはもここに寄ってくださる皆様のおかげです、ありがとうございます

The one which could be continued is everybody's favor by which a pike eel comes near here, thank you very much.

それと、もう一つのブログ/　And another blog

future-compass/

2017年からスタートして4年になり毎日のよう更新してきましたので、こちらもたまには覗いてくださいね

4 years had passed since it started from 2017, and daily YOU was being renewed, so please sometimes also look stealthily at this.

11月も終わり"End of November"

 11月30日、通常時ならクリスマス商戦が始まって活気のある時期なんだけど今年はどうなんだろう。

If it's usually time on November 30, a Christmas sales battle starts and is lively time, but how is this year?

今、日本のアニメ「鬼滅の刃」が流行っているんだけど、主人公の刃でCOVID-19を切り捨ててもらいましょう

Japanese animation "Kimetsu-no-Yaiba(Blade of destroyed Demon)" is popular now, you'll cut off COVID-19 by main character's blade.

ちょっと前に行ったあの街はとても賑やかだったけど、今年はどうなのかな?

That town where you went to the front was slightly very busy, but how is this year?

写真はバンクーバー/ picture is Vancouver.

今年のクリスマスプレゼントはこの病気に効果的なワクチンかな、早くみんなに行き渡ると

いいよね。

Is this year's Christmas present a vaccine effective in this sickness, when I spread over everyone early.

It's good, isn't it?

皆さんが素敵な１２月を過ごせますように

So that everyone can spend nice December.